Anyway, along with the joy of attending church comes the chore of helping out with Youth Group, and with Youth Group comes mediocre, lame activities designed to entertain your snot-nosed teenager every Sunday evening so you can stay busy smoking your crack pipe like you do all week while they're at school instead of getting a job and supporting your family like an ACTUAL parent would. One of these mediocre, lame activities include the 30-hour famine, which has to be about as "world-changing" a form of charity work as flinging bits of bread to pigeons at the park. For those of you who are fortunate enough to not have stumbled upon such a thing as a 30-hour famine, allow me to dampen your luck by describing to you what it's like. You sit in a church (or school) for yes, 30 hours, unable to eat virtually anything except crackers and water, all for the sake of earning money from whatever dunderhead put bets on whether or not you'd be able to make it, and the money you earn supposedly goes to hungry kids in Africa. Or unless my conspiracy is true, where the money instead goes the pastor's cat-feeding fund. Oh, and did I mention that during the whole famine, you have to be surrounded by idiots who are about as likeable as Hitler himself? No? Maybe it's just me, but my experience enduring a 30-hour famine included being with a mentally handicapped kid who offered me a "Jolly Rancher" every chance he got (even though it's actually a Starburst, but whatever), a 12-year-old girl who ripped off her T-shirt and performed a strip dance in front of my 6-year-old brother, and a girl who claims to be "the biggest Harry Potter fan in the world" despite confessing she's never even read all of the books. Oh, and also a blonde chick whose stupidity I will address in a moment. First thing I've gotta say, though, is despite your doubt about all this being true, let me tell you, I pray to God every night that the things I've noted in this post so far were just an exaggeration or even a lie, but all of it's 100% true. Down to the youth leader telling us about how he had 2 different girlfriends at once when he was a teenager and saying it was a GOOD thing, every last bit of this flipping story is 100% true. Depressed for humanity yet? Get over yourself; it gets worse.
Back to the blonde chick: anyway, I brought up a conversation with her about school (yes, in real life I'm able to drop my hatred for society for a moment in order to speak civilly with people) and upon finding out I've been homeschooled, I received a disgusted glance and the words, "You're homeschooled? Wow... Don't you ever have any fun?"
"You're homeschooled? Wow... Don't you ever have any fun?"
"You're homeschooled? Wow... Don't you ever have any fun?"
"You're homeschooled? Wow... Don't you ever have any fun?"
My response was one I don't care to place here, but it was something along the lines of the above picture. All I have to ask is, "Why, society?" Why is homeschooling set up as such a foreign, mind-boggling thing? This girl, along with many other people I've met, insinuate by saying things like this that "fun" does not extend beyond the walls of a public education building. Apparently, public schools are the bomb shelters in a world full of "non-fun nukes" being dropped everywhere. Outside of a public school, there is no such thing as merriment, enjoyment, happiness, or "fun."
SCREW THAT. If public schools are teaching kids that public school is the only place they're going to find any fulfillment in life, then I want nothing to do with such cult-like teaching. I'll have just about as much fun as any drooling public school moron sitting at the desk in my room doing my school online and finishing it up by noon as they will sitting in a classroom 8 hours a day. I'll have as much fun walking outside and talking to my neighbors or spending time with my family as they will listening to their teachers drone on and on about their personal lives or talking with their "friends" at lunch about Internet memes. I will have as much fun going to the library and actually LEARNING things as they will going cheerleading and playing football---which, might I add, won't benefit them at all when the time for the "real world" comes.
"Waaa, but public school is where I SOCIALIZE!!111oneoneone" "zomg, ur so harsh!!!1" "humsckoolerz are so clozed-mindedd, they just beleeve wut their parentz tell tem!11" "how wil u ever go 2 kollege!1111???" "do you hav any frenz??"
First of all, there are plenty of places to socialize besides public school, just ask anyone. Do you think people in other countries who don't even have the option of attending a government-operated school such as your own are worried about their socializing skills? No, they socialize every day, because they're starving and have to work for everything they've got---they're part of the REAL WORLD. And you mean to tell me I'm more closed-minded and gullible than the kid who thinks being vacuum-sealed in a classroom like a tuna-fish and gaping at a blackboard with your mouth hanging open like a tuna-fish is the only form of schooling that is "right"? Not to mention, I believe not a word my mother tells me without checking the facts first, and no she's not my "teacher." I actually have schoolbooks that I read and study and learn for MYSELF; she's just there if I need any help. At school, do public school teachers spend their whole time showing you how to do everything and telling you what to believe? Or is he or she just there mainly to go over the lesson, let you do the worksheets and learn it yourself, and stand by in case you need the material to be re-explained in different terms? I thought so. Next, what do you mean, "How will I go to college?" I'll study for the stupid SAT, take the stupid SAT, get a good grade for the stupid SAT, and that number will determine how I get into college. You honestly think any of your grades in high school have anything to do with getting into college? If so: you, my dear, are the one who is severely misinformed.
Do I sound like I know how to have fun yet? By golly gee willikers, I do. And what do you mean, "Do I have any friends?" Let's see what SpongeBob has to say about that:
My blood pressure has risen enough for one segment. BeautifulCynic out.
